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Cellular responses to DNA damage: mechanistic insights and therapeutic applications
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
As DNA is frequently subject to a wide array of molecularly distinct forms of damage, life has evolved various DNA repair mechanisms and associated processes, collectively termed the DNA-damage response (DDR). The importance of DNA repair and DDR mechanisms is underlined by their deregulation or loss causing cancer and various human genetic disorders whose pathologies include stem-cell exhaustion, developmental defects, infertility, immune-deficiency, neurodegeneration and/or premature ageing. Work in my laboratory aims to decipher DDR mechanisms, particularly those triggered by DNA double-strand breaks. In this talk, I will describe some of our recent work combining CRISPR-based genome engineering and genetic screens with mechanistic studies to identify new DDR factors/regulators and define their functions, and to define and understand cross talks and functional interactions between DDR components. I will also explain how our work has identified new avenues for anti-cancer therapy and is helping us understand how cancer cells can evolve resistance to therapeutic agents.
Date:
18 January 2024, 12:00
Venue:
MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details:
Seminar Room
Speaker:
Professor Stephen P. Jackson (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Organising department:
MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
Organiser:
Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
seminar.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Dr Ross Chapman (University of Oxford)
Part of:
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
Booking required?:
Recommended
Booking email:
seminar.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Yasmine Saito
